![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Short Hand - Horses in the Chest - Short Hand
Peter Davis's Short Hand is back for a fourth LP. Horses in the Chest is a decidedly even set of tracks that feels like a return to roots for both artist and listener. Short Hand hones his considerable skill for quirky instrumentation and noodling with a quiet acumen here. The album sounds dusty, sometimes old-timey, sometimes clearly planted in modern indie America--some of the songs like spirituals, some like angular contemporary paintings, all of them somehow familiar.
Keywords: freak folk; new weird America; indiana; alternative country; singer/songwriter
Downloads: 133
Average rating:  (2 reviews) |
| Instead of Gun Shopping - Wystan Whitman
These are bedroom recordings, bare acoustic guitar and voice. These are bedroom recordings, yet the performance is perfectly tensed, vast, arresting. Beside what’s immediately audible you can also hear a rapt audience filling a room. As a whole, the album feels wintry and faintly smoky, like Wystan Whitman is filling you in on current events while he stirs a slowly cooking stew. This one leaves plenty for leftovers and re-listens.
Keywords: freak folk, lo fi, indie folk, singer-songwriter, Western Sahara, Serbia, infinite lute, acoustic, spoken word
Downloads: 75 |
| Short Hand - Attila - Short Hand
Attila is a half an hour of folk-rock charged with delta wonk. Short Hand plays like a wild man on these twelve tracks. The instrumentation is raw, most striking his voice, which he wields like a voodoo stick to fling swamp mud at a rock 'n' roll sky. Thematically, the song cycle is just as solid and forceful, taking up subjects like self-assurance and existential fearlessness and evoking giants of history like Attila the Hun and Muhammad Ali that reverberate even through the "softer" songs.
Keywords: folk-punk; folk-blues; singer-songwriter; freak folk; new weird America
Downloads: 119 |
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